I think the Liberals are going over the rules for the leadership spill then voting. I’m expecting the result to be announced any moment now. I haven’t seen or heard anything to change my thinking that Turnbull will win.

ABC News 24 ran a quote from one of the whips saying he feels sorry for Andrew Hastie. It will be interesting to see hast this spill will effect the by-election.

Update: The results for the Wikinews ArbCom election were posted in the past few minutes. They can be found over on Wikinews.

Hi all
Voting was closed this morning for electing the Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) for the English language Wikinews. No votes were added since last night. The members of the Election committee will hopefully consider ratifying the result. This is usually a no surprises ratification with the result already known.

It’s now that time of year again when English language Wikinews is holding its Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) election.

You may of heard of Wikipedia’s ArbCom which takes many cases each year. The Wikinews one is essentially the same except with a couple of differences.

The first is that the Wikinews version is purely elected – the Wikipedia version is officially appointed.

The second difference is the number of cases heard. In both cases the ArbCom is the last last resort option of the dispute resolution process. Wikipedia ArbCom has concluded nine cases since January 1 – including one heard in December. Wikinews ArbCom haven’t heard a case in nine five years – that’s years.

Consensus on Wikinews seems to be that contributors keep it so an outside force – courts, the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia’s ArbCom – to unduly tell them what is what.